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...night [at UConn].”GOALIE-ORIENTEDThe Harvard-Duluth series featured not two, nor three, but four of the top goalies in women’s hockey. The weekend opener pitted Crimson sophomore Brittany Martin against Bulldogs rookie Kim Martin (pronounced mar-teen). The UMD freshman is no stranger to top competition, however, having started in net for Team Sweden at the Winter Olympics in February. The Stockholm native led her country to a stunning semifinal win over the U.S. squad, which incidentally included Harvard stalwarts Chu and Cahow, at the tender age of 19.“It?...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NOTEBOOK: Chu Limps Off Ice, Later Returns to Bench With Wrapped Ankle | 12/3/2006 | See Source »

Cambridge City Councillor Marjorie Decker is no stranger to the military draft. During the Vietnam War, her father was drafted to fight while many others were able to evade service. So when Rep. Charles B. Rangel, D-N.Y., announced this Sunday that he wanted to bring back the draft for everyone 18 and over, it conjured mixed emotions for her. “In some ways, I resent the draft because there were a lot of people who could get out who were far more privileged,” Decker said. “At the same time, it?...

Author: By Kevin Zhou, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Local Pols Wrangle With Rangel Over Reinstating Draft | 11/22/2006 | See Source »

...that there are crazies out there. Don't travel with someone you don't trust." While the American Automobile Association (AAA) encourages carpooling with someone you know, it warns against ride sharing when you don't know who is behind the wheel. "You're hooking up with a perfect stranger," says Robert Sinclair Jr., a spokesman for AAA. "Beyond the fact that they could kidnap you and rob you, you don't know how good of a driver they are and what kind of insurance they have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitchhiking In Cyberspace | 11/20/2006 | See Source »

...willing to learn them.In the Egyptian capital, a wardrobe malfunction is not an accident—it’s a sin. My public crime—by which I mean three centimeters of exposed hip—was apparently atrocious enough to warrant a complete stranger yanking my t-shirt down and proceeding to shoot me a look of disdain that—at one fell stroke—dismissed me based on nothing more than the clothes I was wearing. But the Egyptian taboo against baring even the smallest bit of skin runs much deeper than mere cultural...

Author: By Nadia O. Gaber | Title: Why I Won’t Veil | 11/17/2006 | See Source »

...silent films. It was there she found a second career, writing memoir-essays on her early days. These trenchant pieces, on Chaplin and W. C. Fields, Gish and Garbo, and of course Pabst and Pandora's Box, were collected in the volume Lulu in Hollywood, and proved Brooks a stranger creature than the moguls could imagine: a beauty with a brain. The flapper could write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lulu-Louise at 100 | 11/14/2006 | See Source »

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